Introduction Psychotic disorders often cause a drastic change in the life situation of affected individual. Personality is an aspect that can affect symptoms and social function psychotic disorders. Objectives No study has examined stability personality traits exceeding five years patients with schizophrenia. The aim this was to investigate over 13-year period among disorder healthy individuals...

the aim of this review is to focus the current knowledge about mental and behavioral disorders in usher syndrome. previous studies described the presence of various mental disorders associated with usher syndrome, suggesting possible mechanisms of association between these disorders. the most common manifestations are schizophrenia-like disorder and psychotic symptoms. mood and behavioral disor...

Childhood-onset schizophrenia (COS) refers to schizophrenia with onset of psychotic symptoms prior to a child's 13(th) birthday. Optimal treatment likely includes family-based services supplementing antipsychotic pharmacotherapy. However, family-based services can require adjustment based on parental psychopathology; there has been little literature exploring the frequency or type of psychopath...

We present a case of a middle-aged male patient with a long history of conversion disorder and histrionic personality, who presented with newly onset psychotic symptoms while being engaged to treatment with a community mental health team in a primary care setting. The symptoms could not be attributed to an organic cause. After a short course of olanzapine treatment which caused adverse effects,...

Various forms of psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia, can influence how we speak. Therefore, clinicians assess speech and language behaviors of their patients. While it is difficult for humans to quantify speech behaviors precisely, acoustic descriptors, such as tenseness of voice and speech rate, can be quantified automatically. In this work, we identify previously unstudied acoustic ...

Social dysfunction is common in patients with psychotic disorders. Oxytocin is a neuropeptide with a central role in social behavior. This study aims to explore the relationship between oxytocin pathway genes and symptoms related to social dysfunction in patients with psychotic disorders. We performed association analyses between four oxytocin pathway genes (OXT, OXTR, AVP, and CD38) and four a...

BACKGROUND Subjective experiences of psychotic disorders are often not communicated because of the difficulty in articulating them. Metaphor is a valuable way of describing these experiences to others. Recovery in psychotic disorders involves consolidation and transitioning processes. The ontological and orientational types of metaphor seem to form the linguistic basis of these processes. AIM...